Albert Weiblen Marble & Granite Company, Inc.: memorial designers and builders.

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ALBERT WEIBLEN MARBLE & GRANITE COMPANY, Inc.

MEMORIAL DESIGNERS
AND BUILDERS

521 City Park Ave. 1 5 1 6 Healy Bldg.

New Orleans, La. Atlanta, Qa.

Shreveport, La.

MAUSOLEUMS -:- MONUMENTS

STATUARY

BRONZE

Memorial art is the oldest of all arts, and the most
universal. It knows no restriction of race, of time, or of
caste. It is the one lasting and unfailing index of civiliza-
tion, so much so that it has often been the final resort
of history. Save for its monuments, more than one nation
would have perished utterly from human knowledge. And
we can readily assess the intellectual, material, and cultural
development on any people by the attention they have given,
in this particular* to their dead.

Memorial art possesses, therefore, a background of tra-
dition, of precedent, and of practice unique among all the
arts, and far surpassing those of any otlier. It concerns no
passing custom, whether of weeks or years. It is actuated
by no transient motive. It derives from the earliest past,
and is devoted to the farthest future, since it is founded
un the perpetuation of reverence and devotion, and estab-
lished in the eternal sequence of love and death.

Thus the task of the memorial craftsman is not only
creative, but also, and in the highest degree, practical and

expressive. He renders personality iinperisliable, and in
so doing, must conform to artistic and technical laws that
the test of centuries has accumulated for his guidance. The
permanent value of a monument rests in the skill and ex-
perience of the man who selects, desimis, and fashions its
stone from meaningless form to an undying testimony.

]"<ir ynuv own security, choose your memorial only on
that assurance.

Our designing deiiartmcnt is under the supervision of
a designer of long experience and established reputation, and
is highly specialized in all the requirement of memorial
art and architecture. It is at y<mr service for the produc-
tioti of original designs, or tlic development of your own
ideas in accordatice with memorial usage, witliout charge.

On your retiuest, our representative will call, and give
you any information y(ju desire concerning tlie selection,
planning, and placing of ymir memorial.

MATERIALS

Through our connections with the various granite and marble centers in this
country and abroad, we are in a position to furnish the highest quality of
monument materials.

Our recent memorials have set a new standard for the artistic use of bronze
statuary and ornaments in connection with marble and granite. AVe;have
prepared a special booklet on this subject which w^e will mail upon request.

REFERENCES

A list of some of our clients is enclosed with tliis booklet, l^y their per-
mission, we refer you to them. In this list you may find a friend or an
acquaintance Avho wnW be glad, w^e are sure, to recommend the work we have
executed for them during the forty years w^e have l>een engaged in this
business.

Interior View of Finishing Plant, New Orleans

Airplane View of Our Quarry and Finishing Plant at Stone Mountain, Georgia

One of Our Finshing Plants at Stone Mountain, Ga.

STERNBERGER MAUSOLEUM, Greensboro, N. C.

HASSINGER MAUSOLEUM, Birmingham, Ala.

PENN MAUSOLEUM, Waxahatchie. Texas

HYAMS MAUSOLEUM, New Orleans

LAWRENCE FABACHER MAUSOLEUM, New Orleans

BROOK MAUSOLEUM, New Orleans

CARBAJAL MAUSOLEUM, New Orleans

DOWNMAN MAUSOLEUM, New Orleans

WIGHT MAUSOLEUM, New Orleans

BOBET MAUSOLEUM, New Orleans

WHITNEY MAUSOLEUM, New Orleans

KRUETGEN MAUSOLEUM, Chicago, 111.

W. p. BURKE MAUSOLEUM, New Orleans

MAMIER and GREENWALL MAUSOLEUMS, New Orleans

ESPY VAULT SEVEY VAULT

New Orleans

B. P. O. E. ELKS MAUSOLEUM, New Orleans

MAYER SARCOPHAGUS, Mobile, Alabama

LACOSST MEMORIAL, New Orleans

MEYER MEMORIAL, Houston, Texas

STERN MEMORIAL, New Orleans

MARTIN BEHRMAN MEMORIAL, New Orleans

KOLZER MONUMENT, Birmingham, Ala

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PAPWORTH and BECK MEMORIALS
New Orleans

SUARES MEMORIAL WOLFSON MEMORIAL

New Orleans

ENTRANCE ARCH, VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK,
U. S. War Department— Vicksburg, Miss.

GUMBEL FOUNTAIN, Audujon Park, New Orleans

HIGH ALTAR AND RAIL, CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST

Plaquemine, La.

(An example of the Ecclesiastical work we are equipped to execute)

Ghiberti's "Door of Paradise" from the Baptistery in Florcn:^e.
Replica in Bronze.